Odds and Ends — 21 January 2022
My first use of Grum Flamebade (Silver III, 25 mana, Healed Out and Lost Magic rule sets). What a beast.
Also, Water puts out Fire (38 mana, Reverse Speed and Keep Your Distance rule sets).
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Surprise, surprise: SEC rejects Skybridge's application for spot Bitcoin ETF
A bit simplistic as the part of the pie chart labeled Bitcoin should really be DAE:
Massive generational wealth transfer beginning.
— Dan Tapiero (@DTAPCAP) January 20, 2022
Simple chart to explain.
Institutions are stuck and late.
Flood of liquidity coming into digital asset ecosystem (DAE) in search of yield and return.
Fiat world devalues vs DAE.#BTC #ETH #Stablecoins #NFTs #DeFi grow DAE. pic.twitter.com/glepofaiuL
I Guess I’ve Been Here for a While:
From @hivebuzz:
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Accused of faking COVID test results, NY man facing multiple charges
Politics:
Ukraine ‘Stunned’ at Biden’s Comments on Putin
Biden Walks Back Comments on Ukraine
U.S. Allows Baltic NATO Members to Send Arms
The U.S. has given approval for three Baltic NATO members to send American-made weapons to Ukraine.
The decision will enable Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to send Javelin antitank weapons and Stinger air-defense systems for Ukraine’s forces.
Just a day earlier, I had seen an article saying that approval to send American weapons to a third country was a long bureaucratic procedure. Things are moving fast.
Spain sends warships to Black Sea, considers sending warplanes
Jan. 6 committee asks Ivanka Trump for cooperation, testimony
Pretty please won’t work but a subpoena can’t be far away.
If Donald Trump is innocent of inciting the insurrection, why won't anyone say so under oath?
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) January 20, 2022
Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel
The former senior Trump aide also told House investigators that the details of whether Trump actually intended to march to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse rally would be memorialized in documents provided to the US Secret Service, the sources said.
Pro-Trump Audiences Stall on Alternative Social Networks
Pro-Trump commentators’ hopes of developing major followings on right-leaning websites after they left Facebook and Twitter have run up against a harsh reality: Their audiences on those sites have stagnated.
A Washington Post analysis of audience data for 47 prominent right-wing influencers who flocked last year to alternative social networks Gab and Gettr, the video-streaming site Rumble and the chat service Telegram found that their followings surged immediately after President Donald Trump was banned on the mainstream sites.
But those audiences have barely grown in the year since. In some cases, they even declined.
Georgia Prosecutor Requests Special Grand Jury for Trump
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
Is DOJ Investigating the Forged Documents Trump Used in His Coup Attempt?
Lawmakers skewer interim CIA report on Havana Syndrome
Rep. Lauren Boebert Asked A Group Of Jewish Capitol Visitors If They Were Doing "Reconnaissance"
Serendipity:
'The Enigma': Sothebys To Auction Off Massive 555.55-Carat Black Diamond From Space
Former Pope Benedict failed to act over abuse, new report finds
International Red Cross hack exposes half a million vulnerable people